The gender gap in voting in post-conflict elections: Evidence from Israel, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire

Daniel Stockemer and Michael J Wigginton
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Daniel Stockemer: University of Ottawa, Canada
Michael J Wigginton: University of Ottawa, Canada

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2022, vol. 39, issue 1, 74-96

Abstract: In this article, we first formulate some theoretical expectations about the development of the gender gap in voting in post-conflict situations. Second, we test these expectations on five cases, including two civil wars, the Ivorian Civil War (2011) and the Malian Civil War (2013–2015), and three major international Israeli conflicts, the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the First and Second Lebanon Wars (1982–1985 and 2006). We do so by comparing women’s and men’s turnout before and after a conflict using individual voting data and find that the sum of the nine factors we identify (i.e. duration of war, type of warfare, end of fighting after ceasefire/peace settlement, change in workforce participation, international involvement in the peace process, international development aid, the militarization of politics and female social movement activism) explain changes in the gender gap in voting after the conflict in three of the five cases we study.

Keywords: Gender gap in voting; post-conflict situation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/0738894220966577

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